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- Relationship to Diabetes
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MUMBAI, MAY 26:
Last November, around one lakh residents in Mumbai were screened for diabetes by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Of them, approximately12 per cent who were diagnosed with diabetes were unaware of their illness, reveals the BMC initiative, which was organised along with Johnson and Johnson, the diversified drugs and devices-maker.
It is this “silent” diabetic population emerging in random screenings in different States that has experts worried. Left unchecked, India could surpass China and become home to the largest number of diabetics in the world, they caution, despite 20-year projections pegging India as behind China.
India and China account for almost half the global incidence of diabetes, says Sushobhan Dasgupta, Managing Director, J&J Medical India and Vice-President, Diabetes Care Asia Pacific.
Going by how the numbers stack up over 20 years, India could be the country to have the world’s largest diabetic population, given the low awareness, among other things, he observes.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com...ome-world-diabetes-capital/article6050334.ece
Last November, around one lakh residents in Mumbai were screened for diabetes by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Of them, approximately12 per cent who were diagnosed with diabetes were unaware of their illness, reveals the BMC initiative, which was organised along with Johnson and Johnson, the diversified drugs and devices-maker.
It is this “silent” diabetic population emerging in random screenings in different States that has experts worried. Left unchecked, India could surpass China and become home to the largest number of diabetics in the world, they caution, despite 20-year projections pegging India as behind China.
India and China account for almost half the global incidence of diabetes, says Sushobhan Dasgupta, Managing Director, J&J Medical India and Vice-President, Diabetes Care Asia Pacific.
Going by how the numbers stack up over 20 years, India could be the country to have the world’s largest diabetic population, given the low awareness, among other things, he observes.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com...ome-world-diabetes-capital/article6050334.ece
